Martin Lawrence

My first interview on the celebrity beat, in 2009, should have been a total disaster. I’d never spent an entire afternoon with an actor before and stupidly listened to another journalist who told me I shouldn’t write down notes or tape-record as the subject is speaking because it could hurt the flow and intimacy of the conversation. As a result, I had barely any quotes and details to work with and it showed in my poorly written article. The whole experience could have been traumatizing, if not for the fact that I was interviewing the incredibly friendly Michael Clarke Duncan. For a guy who stood 6-foot-5, weighed 300 pounds and was a former bodyguard for Will Smith and Martin...

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